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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 22
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Jerusalem shall be attacked and scourged—Her people shall be carried captive—Messiah shall hold the key of the house of David, inherit glory, and be fastened as a nail in a sure place.
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The</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a message of doom to Jerusalem.">burden</a> of the valley of vision.  What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
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Thou that art full of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR noise.">stirs</a>, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain <i>men are</i> not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
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All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, <i>which</i> have fled from far.
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Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">weep</a> bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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For <i>it is</i> a day of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 3.">trouble</a>, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
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And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men <i>and</i> horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
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And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
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&#182; And he <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/8a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB stripped off.">discovered</a> the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/22/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 2.">house</a> of the forest.
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Ye have seen also the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE cracks, breaks in the wall.">breaches</a> of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/22/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 20: 20.">pool</a>.
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And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
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Ye made also a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 7: 3.">ditch</a> between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/22/11b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE you have not turned to the LORD.">maker</a> thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
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And in that day did the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE He called for repentance.">call</a> to <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/22/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Joel 2: 17; 2 Cor. 7: 10; James 4: 9 (8-10).">weeping</a>, and to mourning, and to <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/22/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 18.">baldness</a>, and to girding with sackcloth:
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And behold <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE They went on with revelry as usual.">joy</a> and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/22/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 12: 19; 1 Cor. 15: 32; 2 Ne. 28: 8.">eat</a> and drink; for <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/22/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Procrastination.">to</a> morrow we shall die.
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And it was revealed in mine ears by the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts.
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&#182; Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, <i>even</i> unto <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a personal warning to Shebna (v. 15-19).">Shebna</a>, which <i>is</i> over the house, <i>and say,</i>
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What hast thou here?  and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, <i>as</i> he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, <i>and</i> that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
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Behold, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
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He will surely violently turn and toss thee <i>like</i> a ball into a large <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE probably Assyria.">country</a>: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory <i>shall be</i> the shame of thy lord’s house.
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And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
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&#182; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Eliakim shall replace Shebna. Moreover, the symbolic name ‘Eliakim’ in ensuing verses becomes representative of the Messiah, the Savior, especially v. 23-25. The name means ‘God shall cause to arise.’">call</a> my servant <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/22/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 18: 18.">Eliakim</a> the son of Hilkiah:
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And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Governments.">government</a> into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Keys; TG Sealing.">key</a> of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
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And I will fasten him <i>as</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/22/23a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ezra 9: 8; Zech. 10: 4; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">nail</a> in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
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And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
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In that day, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that <i>was</i> upon it shall be cut off: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken <i>it.</i>
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